[harry]

i am going to try muscovys next year for meat ducks..... can anyone tell me why these arent real ducks

[Hermit]

Cause they are really a goose.

[colliewoman]

they are perching ducks all other domestic duck are decended from the mallard.
Muskies are an entirely different species and are apparently more closely related to a goose than a duck.

[jaykay]

Cairina moschata as opposed to Anas platyrhynchos, which is what most domestic ducks descend from.

As CW says 

[bangbang]

Never eaten one myself...does it taste like duck, or like goose,
or are they all pretty much the same?

[PetiteGalette]

They taste yummy! But, then, I love to eat home-grown ducks................ and do, often!!

[harry]

was told they taste more like veal or venison (low fat) cant remember which.....will they X with a goose then or a duck ,,i know the ducklings will be infertile but doesnt matter

[northfifeduckling]

they originated from the Americas, our ducks are European. I sort of remember that when you buy a Barberry duck in the shops it's the same breed...put me right if it's not correct, folks.

[SallyintNorth]

They taste spectacular, like duck only more so.  And much more of it, too.  They are like a goose to pluck though - you could stuff a duvet with the down on that breast 

They will cross with ducks, yes, I don't know about geese.  I've been told that the duck hybrid is infertile, like a mule (horse x donkey.)

[harry]

can muscovys be marketed (oven ready) as geese 

[northfifeduckling]

don't think so, as Barberry ducklings they can 

[colliewoman]

can muscovys be marketed (oven ready) as geese 

No, because they are Muscovy ducks 
They might be related but they are not the same thing. It would be like selling rabbit as hare
I would be annoyed if I was sold mis-identified meat

[harry]

one post on here states they are geese...... you say they are ducks..... just looking for the answer for clarification.... understand the rabbit  hare thingy

[jaykay]

They're not geese. But they are a different species from what all other domestic ducks are descended from, which is the species Mallards are. Muscovies are ducks, but different.

Like rabbit and hare.

[goosepimple]

That's right, they are more genetically related to a goose than a duck but are a duck in their own right. 
 
I'll tell you how they taste soon, we took 14 boys to the gamekeeper today and I am collecting them tomorrow to be processed (packaged) by a gunsmiths in a town near hear who do that sort of thing.  We've never tasted one so looking forward to that, I love duck. 
 
We have found them lovely to keep, very fertile and make excellent mums, they aren't nervous creatures, don't run away from the dog and will eat out of my hand.  We don't shut ours in at night, they roost but then we haven't had a fox or badger problem here as there are a lot of gamekeepers about.  And what is nice is that they don't all look the same, they come in lots of different colours so you feel like you have lots of different varieties.